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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1912
Page
3
All wool ladies skirts in every color and size priced at 4.98 and 5.90. Sturdy fabrics and smart styles available for immediate selection and fitting. Narrow selection indicates a strong value offer from the retailer.
A swashbuckling pirate plans a final voyage for his beloved daughter, a melodramatic plot framed by Selig’s Hest style. The story blends peril on the high seas with a bond between parent and child amid western adventures and harsh desert trials.
A cinema page previews two reel Biograph release So Nest Yet So Far featuring Mary Pickford in a light hearted comedy about chance meetings. Fire at Sea tells of a schooner blaze after a captain's neglect and a powder room spark causing a catastrophic shipwreck. Also included are Well Washed Hose and a Silk Worm life lesson, plus a long anecdote about Mr Flowers lecturing on Hamlet with seven hours of recitals and railway travelers staying for the tale.
Montaville Flowers interprets Hamlet with a clear, consistent and forcible message that resonates with listeners. While traveling from Seattle to Chicago, Flowers discussed broad topics in a Pullman car with one bondsman and two railroad workers, illustrating the play’s wide appeal.
An old advertisement touts Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy from The Wyeth Chemical Company of New York. It claims sulfur deficiency links to hair color loss and advises a fifty cent bottle from Pendleton Drug Co. for dandruff and scalp troubles with a money back guarantee.
Mrs D Wood 24 wife of a theater employee was gagged and attacked in her Blunt rooming house apartment at 7 06 Monday evening. Jack Davis a bootblack on parole from the penitentiary was arrested and held. Police say the assault involved binding and possible chloroform. Davis had been in Albany two months and came from a Jackson County theft sentence of one to ten years. The 7 year old daughter witnessed the incident and led police to the suspect. The husband D Wood employed at the Empire Theater. Local excitement followed the arrest.
A nostalgic health ad touts Dr. Kings New Life Pills to tone the stomach regulate liver kidneys and bowels when indigestion appears. The ad claims safety ease and a price of 25 cents at Koeppens.
A reader asks if making a remark invites a response like Is that 50 or a playful challenge. The exchange centers on tone and social cues when someone cites a number in conversation.
Umatilla county endures two weeks of frequent rain with only two days dry. Precipitation scattered over long period, mild temps boost grain growth while wheat prospers, but potato and fruit harvests face growing difficulty. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as remedy for scrofula and other ailments.
Announcement in the American colony stirs interest as Miss Constance Warren daughter of George Henry Warren and niece of Mrs. Ogden Goelet of New York becomes betrothed to Count Guy de Lasteyrie son of the Marquis Lasteyrie. The engagement follows their courtship in St Moritz this summer and highlights a serious, titled noble suitor.
King George hosts the Duchess of Marlborough at Floweroen Hall, Lord Iveagh’s country seat, for the first time since his accession. Queen Mary’s disapproval of divorced wives complicates court life, but the king invites the duchess to a shooting visit with other notable guests including Sir Priest Cassel and Baron de Several, plus Lady Acheson, daughter of J Ridgeley Carter.
The king and queen will make stately country visits with Queen Mary joining the king. The Duke of Devonshire and Portland will entertain at Chatsworth and Welbeck. Welbeck prepares a dance in its underground ballroom. The Earl of Derby and the Marquis of Salisbury will host later. Hosts can well afford the costly entertainments.
Paris dealer Archer H. Huntington of New York, adopted son of the late Collin P. Huntington, buys the house of Cervantes in Valladolid for the Hispanic Society of America. Huntington, famed as a Spain art patron and author, aims to lend his services in the United States for upcoming centenaries of Cervantes and Shakespeare.
A German musician claims a device records notes produced by a piano and can compose by pressing keys while the machine, larger than earlier Italian models used by Mascagni, is driven by electricity. A roll of paper feeds into the device and the composer focuses on the pieces he wishes to publish, the machine recording every note.
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